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DAILy NOTE<br />
FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2013<br />
<strong>22</strong> Of<br />
<strong>22</strong><br />
DISCO ETERNAL<br />
HOw NyC CLubS fIRED up THE wORLD<br />
ARTHuR bAKER / 5 bOROuGHS Of STyLE / NEw yORK HARDCORE
THE DAILY NOTE LAST NIGHT<br />
So, this is goodbye. A little over a month<br />
and <strong>22</strong> issues ago, our colleague Jeff<br />
‘Chairman’ Mao described the Red bull<br />
Music Academy and Daily Note’s entrance<br />
into our fair Gotham as a circus arriving<br />
to town. Hopefully you’ve enjoyed the<br />
improvisational drone-tamers, the insane<br />
clown DJs, and the experimental musicians<br />
on the flying trapeze. (No, we’re not sure<br />
who the ringmaster is either.) we’re too<br />
humble to claim that the past month has<br />
been the Greatest Show on Earth, but we<br />
want to acknowledge that we’ve had as<br />
much fun as you. It’s been fun looking back<br />
on New york’s international influence<br />
(check out Tim Lawrence’s essay on how<br />
the city’s clubs inspired a global clubbing<br />
culture) and fun observing the direction of<br />
our town’s future (see Anthony blasko’s<br />
photo essay on the look of young New<br />
york). Now we’re like the kids who came<br />
home from the circus: happily exhausted<br />
and full of too much cotton candy. better<br />
yet, we’re like Ms. Grace Jones and Mr.<br />
Larry Levan, the two legends who are on<br />
our cover, smoking one in a post-coital<br />
stylee. Honestly, it’s been a pleasure!<br />
-Daily Note staff<br />
MASTHEAD<br />
Editor in Chief Piotr Orlov<br />
Copy Chief Jane Lerner<br />
Senior Editor Sam Hockley-Smith<br />
Senior Writer/Editor Vivian Host<br />
Contributing Editors Todd L. Burns<br />
Shawn Reynaldo<br />
Staff Writer Olivia Graham<br />
Editorial Coordinator Alex Naidus<br />
Creative Director Justin Thomas Kay<br />
for Doubleday & Cartwright<br />
Art Director Christopher Sabatini<br />
Production Designer Suzan Choy<br />
Photo Editor Lorenna Gomez-Sanchez<br />
Staff Photographer Anthony Blasko<br />
All-Seeing Eye Torsten Schmidt<br />
ABOUT RED BUll MUSIc AcADEMY<br />
The Red Bull Music Academy celebrates<br />
creative pioneers and presents fearless new<br />
talent. Now we’re in New York City.<br />
The Red Bull Music Academy is a worldtraveling<br />
series of music workshops and<br />
festivals: a platform for those who make a<br />
difference in today’s musical landscape.<br />
This year we’re bringing together two<br />
groups of selected participants — producers,<br />
vocalists, DJs, instrumentalists and<br />
musical mavericks from around the world — in<br />
New York City. For two weeks, each group<br />
will hear lectures by musical luminaries,<br />
work together on tracks, and perform in the<br />
city’s best clubs and music halls. Imagine<br />
2<br />
Contributors<br />
Sue Apfelbaum<br />
Bill Bernstein<br />
Rob Carmichael<br />
Mobolaji Dawodu<br />
Adrienne Day<br />
Tina Paul<br />
Nick Sylvester<br />
Cover Photo Tina Paul<br />
Larry Levan and Grace Jones at<br />
Sound Factory, NYC 1990.<br />
The content of Daily Note does not<br />
necessarily represent the opinions of<br />
Red Bull or Doubleday & Cartwright.<br />
a place that’s equal parts science lab,<br />
the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and<br />
Kraftwerk’s home studio. Throw in a<br />
touch of downtown New York circa 1981, a<br />
sprinkle of Prince Jammy’s mixing board,<br />
and Bob Moog’s synthesizer collection<br />
all in a <strong>22</strong>nd-century remix and you’re<br />
halfway there.<br />
The Academy began back in 1998 and has<br />
been traversing the globe since, traveling<br />
to Berlin, Cape Town, São Paulo, Barcelona,<br />
London, Toronto, and many other places.<br />
Interested? Applications for the 2014 Red<br />
Bull Music Academy open early next year.<br />
Clockwise: James Murphy<br />
in conversation with<br />
Todd Burns at NYU<br />
Skirball Center; Pick<br />
A Piper playing at<br />
UNOversal Dancehall;<br />
Dirg Gerner (aka Flako)<br />
playing at UNOversal<br />
Dancehall at Le Baron;<br />
Patrick Adams on the<br />
couch at the Academy.<br />
All photos by Anthony<br />
Blasko and Christelle de<br />
Castro
FROM THE ACADEMY<br />
upfRONT<br />
4<br />
THE LAST<br />
wORD<br />
Over the past month, a<br />
cavalcade of very special<br />
artists and musicians<br />
has graced the lecturehall<br />
couch at Red Bull<br />
Music Academy HQ. We’ve<br />
been highlighting one<br />
quote per issue from the<br />
talks, but it’s beyond<br />
an understatement to say<br />
that some great stuff has<br />
been left on the cuttingroom<br />
floor. Sometimes<br />
insightful, sometimes<br />
hilarious, and often both<br />
at once, here are some of<br />
our favorite quips from<br />
throughout the Academy.<br />
“The microphone I was<br />
singing on [for Daft<br />
Punk]— aside from being<br />
worth more than my car —<br />
was the one Frank Sinatra<br />
sang on.”<br />
- Todd Edwards<br />
“I don’t do anything<br />
really. I just watch<br />
documentaries and make<br />
theories.”<br />
- Brian Eno<br />
“I realized that making<br />
people dance had a point<br />
that had nothing to do<br />
with art. I mean that<br />
in the most positive<br />
way. It’s like food — if<br />
they’re not eating it,<br />
you’ve screwed it up. And<br />
if they’re not dancing,<br />
you’re just not doing a<br />
good job.”<br />
- James Murphy<br />
“I did a fanzine first<br />
before I did music. I<br />
was really into tape<br />
trading as well. It<br />
kind of ruined my life<br />
actually...”<br />
- Stephen O’Malley<br />
“It’s a great<br />
chat-up line: ‘Oh yes,<br />
I’m working with the<br />
Beatles.’”<br />
- Ken Scott<br />
“You won’t be hearing me<br />
say I’m the greatest out<br />
of context a lot, but I<br />
am feeling myself.”<br />
- Rakim<br />
“I told my mom what every<br />
white mother wants to<br />
hear: ‘I want to be a<br />
rapper.’”<br />
- El-P<br />
“I can play a record<br />
backwards and bring one<br />
in forward at the same<br />
time... That’s why they<br />
used to call me the<br />
devil.”<br />
- Egyptian Lover<br />
For the complete lectures go to<br />
www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures<br />
“We were between Italy<br />
and Paris, vacationing.<br />
I was doing my crossword<br />
puzzles, having a<br />
great time. But then<br />
unfortunately — well, not<br />
unfortunately — Daft Punk<br />
came and pulled me back<br />
in.”<br />
- Giorgio Moroder<br />
“They used to put<br />
classical music on a<br />
pedestal. I took it<br />
down... Nothing is above<br />
anything, everything<br />
is music, everything is<br />
related.”<br />
- Bernie Worrell<br />
“When you get a<br />
publishing check and it’s<br />
from somewhere you can’t<br />
pronounce, that’s the<br />
craziest feeling.”<br />
- Masters At Work<br />
“I think mistakes are cool, whether you’re DJing or<br />
whatever. No one really likes perfection in any part<br />
of life. Like if you meet someone and they have funny<br />
teeth, you’re like, ‘Ooh, that’s cute.’”<br />
— DJ/producer Seth Troxler, May 30, 2013<br />
fOuNDING<br />
fATHERS<br />
Dishing with the Academy’s<br />
ringmasters.<br />
The Red Bull Music Academy New York 2013<br />
draws to a close today, yet there are still questions<br />
left unanswered. Questions like, “What is this Academy<br />
thing?” and “Who are the crazy people who put<br />
this on?” Not to mention, “How did they get Red<br />
Bull to pay for it?” We cornered Academy founders<br />
Torsten Schmidt and Many Ameri, and asked them a<br />
few questions about this epic undertaking.<br />
What is the biggest thing that has changed from<br />
the first Academy until now?<br />
Torsten Schmidt: Definitely the internationalization.<br />
The first one was only German-speaking<br />
countries—you may imagine how extremely<br />
non-entertaining that was—but from the second<br />
year onwards it was eight countries, and it only got<br />
more colorful from there.<br />
What is the most faraway place a participant<br />
has traveled from?<br />
TS: Three or four years ago, we had this guy—<br />
from Russia, obviously—who works at a marine<br />
naval station in the Arctic Circle. He would just<br />
watch migrations of fish over the year and do ambient<br />
music, which kind of makes sense.<br />
Who is your dream lecturer?<br />
Many Ameri: David Bowie.<br />
TS: I would like to speak to Orson Welles. Every-<br />
JuST<br />
CAN’T<br />
GET<br />
ENOuGH<br />
We know musicians can be<br />
an obsessive lot — think<br />
long nights spent in a<br />
studio tweaking and retweaking<br />
a snare sound<br />
endlessly. Inspiration<br />
can come from anywhere<br />
though, so we asked some<br />
participants from Red<br />
Bull Music Academy 2013<br />
what (besides music)<br />
they’re obsessed with<br />
right now.<br />
ORQuESTA<br />
BrAY, IreLAND<br />
James Bond books.<br />
[Another] ongoing one<br />
is ’50s rock ’n’ roll.<br />
Oh, and motorbikes.<br />
I just really want<br />
to get one and learn<br />
how to ride. I’m into<br />
the idea of driving<br />
across America on a<br />
motorbike. It’s quite<br />
iconic.<br />
soundclound.com/<br />
orquesta<br />
one else we’ve more or less had. But it’s kind of<br />
fun how every Academy, there’s this silent ghost<br />
who is somehow in the room but isn’t. This year it<br />
was Bowie; he appeared in so many bizarrely different<br />
contexts and conversations.<br />
What was the most difficult show you threw?<br />
MA: Organizationally speaking, the DFA party<br />
was definitely the most challenging—having 3,500<br />
people roam through that place. As far as what was<br />
fulfilling but still complicated, it was Drone Activity<br />
in Progress. It was what Europeans think New<br />
York felt like in the ’80s and what Americans think<br />
Berlin feels like today. You had die-hard fans and<br />
people who had never heard this music before all<br />
in the same place eating pizza. There was a really<br />
special buzz.<br />
LOuIS bAKER<br />
WeLLINGTON,<br />
NeW ZeALAND<br />
I’m not a very<br />
obsessive person,<br />
but I love sleep. I’m<br />
a nine-hour kinda<br />
guy. I’m well aware<br />
of the concept of<br />
[adaptation] and<br />
things like that — the<br />
New York night where<br />
you get five hours or<br />
whatever. You get used<br />
to it. But I enjoy<br />
sleep.<br />
soundclound.com/<br />
louisbaker<br />
TS: The Culture Clash was such a magical conundrum<br />
of lunacy. That was one of the most abstract<br />
shows we ever conceptualized. Seeing how well it<br />
worked here was great.<br />
You’ve produced the Academy around the<br />
world. What’s been special about the New York<br />
City edition?<br />
MA: When the Academy comes to New York, the<br />
Academy comes home. There is probably no other<br />
place in the world that has so many former lecturers,<br />
participants, and people we like and have been<br />
connected with over these 15 years than New York.<br />
The amount of love that we’ve been shown over<br />
the last few weeks is quite special to us.<br />
TS: We love arguments and we love opinions and<br />
New Yorkers seem to be good at both.<br />
SHADOwbOx<br />
BrOOkLYN, NeW YOrk<br />
I’m obsessed with<br />
coffee. I stopped<br />
drinking it for a<br />
few years, and now<br />
I am like “Why did I<br />
ever stop?!” Maybe<br />
because I had a few<br />
panic attacks in the<br />
past... I’ve really<br />
been getting snobby<br />
about it — I only drink<br />
Stumptown coffee,<br />
I won’t drink that<br />
Dunkin Donuts stuff<br />
anymore.<br />
soundclound.com/<br />
shadowbox4u<br />
DJ SLOw<br />
BrUSSeLS, BeLGIUM<br />
I’m obsessed with<br />
trying all the<br />
different drinks in<br />
New York. All the<br />
Snapple, Arizona Iced<br />
Teas... and I really<br />
wanna get a Slurpee<br />
too. And I also<br />
want to eat at White<br />
Castle — I’ve never<br />
been. The other night<br />
I was there but I was<br />
too sick to order<br />
food.<br />
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bLOCK<br />
IS HOT<br />
We love to celebrate New York’s history,<br />
but we’re also bullish about its present.<br />
The look and sound of our city is as weird<br />
and exciting as it ever was.<br />
PHOTOGRAPHY ANTHONY BlASKO<br />
STYlING MOBOlAJI DAWODU<br />
Tay — Harlem<br />
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Stan & Andre — Soho<br />
Veronica — LES<br />
Christian & Hugo — Bronx<br />
Ashley & Kareem — Crown Heights<br />
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Laura, Oscar, Gryphon, Eliza,<br />
Richard, Rebecca — Bushwick<br />
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5/28 UNOversal Dancehall<br />
ArTIST Zane Reynolds<br />
5/29 Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto<br />
ArTIST Michael Cina<br />
5/30 Pass the Gates: NYC in Dub<br />
ArTIST Grotesk<br />
5/31 RBMA Closing Night<br />
ArTIST Micah Lidberg<br />
5/26 Blackened Disco<br />
ArTIST Rob Carmichael<br />
5/27 A Conversation with James Murphy<br />
ArTIST Mark Chiarello<br />
5/28 Pantha du Prince &<br />
The Bell Laboratory<br />
ArTIST Luca Zamoc<br />
5/19 Byte Boogie<br />
ArTIST Merjin Hos<br />
5/23 United States of Bass<br />
ArTIST Benjamin Marra<br />
5/24 No Sleep Till Croydon:<br />
The Roots of Dubstep<br />
ArTIST //DIY<br />
5/25 12 Years of DFA Records<br />
ArTIST Hisham Akira Bharoocha<br />
5/20 Deep Space<br />
ArTIST Michael Cina<br />
5/21 Technicolor Coding<br />
ArTIST Trent Bryant<br />
5/<strong>22</strong> Drum Majors<br />
ArTIST Serge Nidegger<br />
RbMA NyC 2013:<br />
TERM TwO EVENT ARTwORK<br />
cENTERFOlD
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On the dancefloor at the<br />
Haçienda, Manchester 1990.<br />
Photo by kevin Cummins/<br />
Premium Archive/Getty Images<br />
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fROM<br />
DISCO<br />
TO<br />
DISCO<br />
Paradise Garage.<br />
Studio 54. The Loft.<br />
The heady influence<br />
NYC’s clubs exerted on<br />
global dance culture.<br />
WORDS TIM lAWRENcE<br />
the case is harder to make today, but once upon a time<br />
New York hosted the most numerous and adventurous DJ-led<br />
party spaces in the world. Visitors testify they had never experienced<br />
anything like it prior to their trip to the city. Some<br />
even returned home with the dream of re-creating something<br />
of their own.<br />
New York’s influence can be traced back to the moment at<br />
the beginning of 1970 when David Mancuso hosted the first in a<br />
series of shimmering house parties that came to be known as the<br />
Loft. Around the same time, two entrepreneurs known as Seymour<br />
and Shelley took over a struggling discotheque called the<br />
Sanctuary and became the first nightclub proprietors to welcome<br />
gay dancers into a public venue. Selecting records in relation to<br />
the energy of their multicultural and polysexual crowds, Mancuso<br />
and Sanctuary DJ Francis Grasso established the sonic and social<br />
potential of a contagious culture. Better Days, the Tenth Floor, the<br />
Gallery, Le Jardin, Flamingo, 12 West, SoHo Place, Galaxy 21, and<br />
Reade Street bolstered the word-of-mouth network. With the media<br />
barely aware of its existence, the city’s dance scene remained<br />
resolutely subterranean—to most locals as well as tourists.<br />
That began to change in the spring of 1977 when one-time<br />
restaurateurs Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager opened Studio 54<br />
in Midtown Manhattan as a celebrity hangout. From the moment<br />
Bianca Jagger rode through the venue on the back of a<br />
white stallion, New York discotheque culture circulated as a<br />
global media story. It did so again in November when the release<br />
of the Brooklyn disco movie Saturday Night Fever carried<br />
the culture into its juggernaut phase. With Laker Airways<br />
having recently launched Skytrain as the first long-haul, lowcost<br />
transatlantic airline, it became much more likely that disco<br />
would travel via the firsthand experience of dancefloor immersion<br />
as well as vinyl, tape, and print-media distribution. The<br />
industry-oriented Disco Forum, first staged in New York in 1976<br />
and held annually, helped potential nightclub operators meet<br />
lighting and sound operators. The hermetic culture of disco was<br />
all set to spread.<br />
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Responsible for installing the sound systems at Studio 54<br />
as well as the Paradise Garage, a Loft-style private party located<br />
in a gargantuan parking garage on King Street, bass innovator<br />
Richard Long vacuumed up a significant portion of the<br />
technical work. The engineer described Studio 54 as his “best<br />
calling card” in an interview with Billboard, yet he also made<br />
a point of taking clients with a purist bent (including the future<br />
owners of the Zanzibar in New Jersey) to the Garage, an<br />
evolving sonic laboratory and the ultimate showcase for his<br />
work. By the end of 1979, Long had installed some 300 systems<br />
around the world, most of them in Europe and South America.<br />
“Believe it or not, he was even contacted by an interested party<br />
in Iran,” Dance Music reported in early 1980. International<br />
dancers might not have been able to identify its point of origin,<br />
but the state-of-the-art technology that drew them to the floor<br />
originated in New York.<br />
Already home to the Northern Soul scene, the north of England<br />
became an emerging hub for New York–style disco when<br />
the Warehouse in Leeds and Wigan Pier in Wigan opened<br />
during 1979. “The Wigan Pier was fitted out by a company called<br />
Bacchus,” notes DJ Greg Wilson, who started to play at the venue<br />
in 1980. “The people who owned it were going to do a normal<br />
club installation, but they got persuaded to do something New<br />
York–style. It was actually advertised<br />
as an American-style<br />
disco. The logo of the club was<br />
an American flag with a frog<br />
underneath it.” When Wilson<br />
went to work at Legend in<br />
Manchester in the summer of<br />
1981, the transatlantic connection<br />
struck him again. “Legend<br />
was a step further than<br />
the Pier,” he adds, referring to<br />
a system that channeled the<br />
high end through the ceiling,<br />
the mid-range around the<br />
dancefloor, and the sub-bass<br />
from the floor. “They even had<br />
a sound sweep. You could send<br />
the sound in a circular motion<br />
around the floor. At the time<br />
there wasn’t a sound system<br />
to compare. There were never<br />
any specific clubs mentioned,<br />
but NYC was undoubtedly the<br />
influence.”<br />
Studio 54 became the first New York discotheque to inspire<br />
an international replica when a version of the venue opened in<br />
Madrid, Spain, in 1980, with Studio selector Richie Kaczor as its<br />
DJ. (Rubell and Schrager had gone to jail earlier that year for<br />
tax evasion). But the more compelling exchange continued to<br />
unfold in the north of England when the Manchester band New<br />
Order, formed from Joy Division after lead singer Ian Curtis<br />
committed suicide, went on a muted tour of the United States<br />
in the autumn of 1980 with their manager Rob Gretton, and<br />
Tony Wilson of Factory Records. Stopping off in New York, the<br />
band opened for A Certain Ratio at Hurrah, the first New York<br />
venue to blend DJing with live music. During their stay they<br />
also went to the Paradise Garage and Danceteria, another venue<br />
that mixed DJing with bands. They returned to Manchester<br />
with the dream of opening a Manhattan-style venue where<br />
eclectic crowds could come together to dance to diverse sounds.<br />
In part because it reminded them of the post-industrial<br />
milieu they had just witnessed in downtown New York, Gretton,<br />
Tony Wilson, and New Order settled on a former yacht<br />
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- VICTOR ROSADO<br />
warehouse on Whitworth Street, agreed to call their venue the<br />
Haçienda, and advertised that DJ Hewan Clarke would play “the<br />
latest American imports.” “Tony Wilson said they had seen the<br />
Paradise Garage and they wanted that concept in the Haçienda,”<br />
recalls Clarke. The live schedule featured the likes of Grandmaster<br />
Flash and the Furious Five along with local bands, many of<br />
them signed to Factory. The combination echoed the kind of<br />
culture clash that was already being stirred up in New York, and<br />
when Danceteria moved from 37th Street to 21st Street, Danceteria<br />
bookings manager Ruth Polsky, who had booked New<br />
Order to play at Hurrah before showing them around the city,<br />
started to pay biannual visits to the Haçienda in order to check<br />
out new talent that she could fly over to the States.<br />
The first year, though, was a struggle. “The Haçienda was<br />
something different and the old school was opposed to any<br />
change, even though the old school existed in dingy clubs<br />
which had carpets that stuck to your feet,” recalls Quando<br />
Quango member Mike Pickering, who scheduled bands and<br />
DJs for the Manchester club. “We were so ahead of our time—<br />
people were like, ‘What the fuck is this?’ There was nothing in<br />
the country like it.”<br />
Pickering’s determination to integrate New York party culture<br />
into the Haçienda intensified when Quando Quango appeared<br />
as the warm-up act for<br />
New Order at the Paradise Garage<br />
in the summer of 1983. “It<br />
was mind-blowing for someone<br />
like me,” notes Pickering,<br />
who also visited Danceteria,<br />
the Funhouse, the Loft, and<br />
the Roxy during his stay. “At<br />
the Garage I used to stand in<br />
the middle of the floor and<br />
think it was heaven.” At one<br />
point Gretton turned to Pickering<br />
and declared, “This is it.<br />
This is what we’ve got to do.<br />
This is what our club should<br />
be like.” Danceteria also left<br />
an impression. “[DJ Mark]<br />
Kamins could play everything,<br />
and Danceteria was also a<br />
meeting place for creative<br />
people,” adds Pickering, who<br />
brought in Greg Wilson to DJ<br />
before launching a new Friday<br />
slot called Nude in November 1984.<br />
Although Clarke and Wilson had put in the legwork that<br />
encouraged black dancers to try out a venue that grew out of<br />
the indie scene, Pickering took on Friday night DJing duties,<br />
believing that he was in the best position to conjure a New York<br />
mix for the Haçienda floor. Within a handful of weeks numbers<br />
had surged, he recalls, with the floor evenly divided between<br />
black and white dancers. When house music began to flow out<br />
of Chicago during 1985, Pickering integrated the sound into his<br />
sets and even co-produced an early UK house track, “Carino” by<br />
T-Coy. The hope of reproducing a New York–oriented dancefloor<br />
had been achieved.<br />
Yet the influx of ecstasy during the spring of 1988 and the<br />
Ibiza-influenced summer that followed disturbed the Haçienda’s<br />
carefully calibrated New York equilibrium and persuaded<br />
a significant proportion of the black crowd to move on. “I regretted<br />
the fact that once you’d come down off the E everything<br />
was pure house,” argues Pickering. “I could tell, even in 1989,<br />
that that wasn’t a good thing and that what we were doing before<br />
was much more precious, because we were playing a wider<br />
Above left: Outside Paradise Garage, NYC 1990. Above right: Crowd on the dancefloor at Hurrah, 1979.<br />
Photos by Bill Bernstein from his upcoming book and photo exhibit in the Uk 2014.<br />
range of music. By 1989 we were slaves to the beat.” For a while<br />
London looked primarily to Chicago and Ibiza for dance inspiration,<br />
but shifted its gaze toward New York when Justin Berkmann<br />
opened the Ministry of Sound in September 1991. A<br />
disillusioned wine trader who arrived in New York in 1986<br />
(his father having sent him there in order to find himself),<br />
Berkmann danced at the Paradise Garage until the venue’s<br />
lease expired in September 1987. “When the Garage closed<br />
it just left such an enormous hole in everyone’s life,” recalls<br />
Berkmann. “New York got pretty depressing pretty quickly.<br />
By February 1988 I was back in London.” Introduced to<br />
James Palumbo and Humphrey Waterhouse, Berkmann<br />
proposed they develop a nightclub drink, which they rejected,<br />
and then a Garage-style venue, which they agreed<br />
to fund.<br />
After an exhaustive search for an appropriate site,<br />
Berkmann settled on a parking garage located in Elephant<br />
& Castle, an economically deprived area of southeast London,<br />
and negotiated a 24-hour, no-alcohol license for the<br />
venue, which meant it would match the Paradise Garage’s<br />
juice-bar status. Seeking to match the Garage’s celebrated<br />
sound system too, he hired Austin Derrick—who worked<br />
with Kenny Powers, a member of Richard Long Associates—to<br />
install the venue’s sound system. Only the intro-<br />
duction of a VIP area stood as a direct<br />
affront to the King Street setup. “The<br />
concept was about 80% Garage and<br />
then the other 20% would have been<br />
a bit of Area and a tiny bit Nell’s,”<br />
adds Berkmann.<br />
Berkmann cemented the Garage<br />
connection by inviting the venue’s totemic<br />
DJ Larry Levan to play at the<br />
Ministry of Sound three weeks into its<br />
run. Victor Rosado, who had become<br />
close to Levan, stepped in after the<br />
Garage DJ missed his flight. Several<br />
more were missed before Levan finally<br />
landed the following Saturday with no<br />
records, having got into the habit of<br />
selling his vinyl to raise money to buy<br />
drugs. Jeremy Newall and DJ Harvey,<br />
along with Berkmann, cobbled together<br />
a collection and Levan played that<br />
night. “He was still the Larry we knew and had come to love,<br />
with all his flaws and also his genius way of transforming a<br />
room,” Rosado remembers of the set. “He was very happy to<br />
see that what he had created wasn’t in vain—that it had in-<br />
spired someone to create the ideals<br />
and ideas of what a party should be<br />
like. He was very motivated to take<br />
London by storm by showcasing the<br />
Ministry of Sound as his new home<br />
away from home.”<br />
The development was symbolic.<br />
As a perfect storm of AIDS, gentrification,<br />
real estate inflation, and the<br />
incremental city-led clampdown of<br />
the club scene made New York a less<br />
hospitable place for party culture,<br />
London became something of a new<br />
capital for clubbing. Ministry bolstered<br />
the case when it hired Zanzibar<br />
and Kiss FM DJ Tony Humphries<br />
to begin a residency in January 1993.<br />
But although Humphries looks back<br />
fondly on the opening months of his stay, in the end he felt<br />
underwhelmed by the venue’s “revolving door of DJs,” which<br />
made it hard to strike up an affinity with the crowd. DJ, producer,<br />
and remixer François Kevorkian maintains that the venue<br />
Above: Studio 54 DJ Booth, 1979. Inset: Dancers entering Paradise Garage, 1979.<br />
Photos by Bill Bernstein from his upcoming book and photo exhibit in the Uk 2014.<br />
“didn’t understand that it’s the crowd that makes the venue,<br />
not the furniture.”<br />
New York still exerts a profound, if smaller-scale, influence<br />
on global party culture. David Mancuso started to build Loftstyle<br />
parties in Japan and London when he became convinced<br />
that if he worked with overseas friends he could hold onto his<br />
house-party ethos outside of his home. Kevorkian launched his<br />
own long-running Deep Space night at Plastic People in London<br />
because nobody at home quite trusted his vision (the party<br />
eventually settled in at Cielo in NYC, where it still holds down<br />
Monday nights). Kevorkian, Joe Claussell, and Danny Krivit<br />
started to travel the world with their legendary Body & Soul<br />
parties, building communities and hiring balloon machines<br />
wherever they went.<br />
Cultivated in New York, the practice of bringing together<br />
diverse sounds and crowds in a single space for a night of dancing<br />
has grown to become one of the most compelling in global<br />
party culture. At times its international take-up has been successful.<br />
On other occasions the purity of its ethos has been hard<br />
to adapt. Either way, when they cross the Atlantic or head back<br />
through to the Pacific, New York’s ripples of influence evoke a<br />
pioneering history that will never be matched.<br />
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FROM THE ARCHIVES<br />
You did some of your most famous work in New York,<br />
but you’re originally from Boston. How did you get into<br />
DJing? To get free records, really. Back then DJs didn’t get paid<br />
much of anything. I started DJing in ’73… And in ’73, obviously,<br />
it was just singles. So we discovered that if you got two copies of<br />
the same single, you could extend it by playing a bit of one and<br />
a bit of another. I’d do parties. I actually went down to Brooklyn<br />
and bought a GLI, which was the company that made the first<br />
mixer. So I got one of those and I had a few turntables, and just<br />
started DJing at college.<br />
You went to Hampshire College, which is in Western<br />
Massachusetts, so it was a little bit easier to get to New<br />
York… Yeah, most of my friends at college were from New York,<br />
so we used to go on the weekends. It was like a two-hour [trip].<br />
We’d go to Downstairs Records, which was probably the first<br />
dance-music shop anywhere, I would guess. So we’d go there<br />
and get records and then we’d go to record companies and I’d<br />
say, “Oh, I’m a big DJ in Amherst,” and they wouldn’t know the<br />
fucking difference. So they’d give me all their records.<br />
You did some writing as well, right? At the time, you were<br />
writing for Dance Music Report? I was writing reviews—<br />
again, to get free records. I was working for Tom [Silverman]<br />
and he decided to do a label, which he called Tommy Boy. I was<br />
the only producer he actually knew personally, so he said, “Do<br />
you wanna go in and do a record for me?” And I said, “Yeah,<br />
sure. You’re paying, I’m playing.”<br />
At this stage, your roots were in soul and disco and you<br />
were working on club records. Tom asked you to do a hiphop<br />
record. Set the scene a little bit. Basically, back then<br />
there was no hip-hop; it didn’t exist. But really, the roots of<br />
hip-hop were club music and disco. Kool Herc was playing<br />
breaks, but the breaks were from disco records or any kind of<br />
records. There was no line between what was club music and<br />
what rappers were rapping over. So Tom had this guy Afrika<br />
Bambaataa who had, like, three groups: Cosmic Force, Jazzy<br />
5, and Soulsonic Force. The Jazzy 5 were the most together at<br />
the time. I went in with the band and Bambaataa came in and<br />
we had all of these records, and [we asked], “Which one do you<br />
want to rap over?” Back then you would try to take a current<br />
record that was hitting the charts and do a rap over it. At the<br />
time there were two that we were thinking of: “Genius of Love”<br />
by Tom Tom Club and “Funky Sensation” by Gwen McCrae. I<br />
figured that someone else was going to do “Genius of Love,” so<br />
we picked “Funky Sensation” and called it “Jazzy Sensation.”<br />
And that sold like 50,000 records.<br />
Talk about Bambaataa’s follow-up. Well “Jazzy Sensation”<br />
was successful and we decided we’d go in again. Tom said Soulsonic<br />
Force was next up. I had been listening to a lot of Kraft-<br />
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ARTHuR bAKER<br />
A producer helps define the sound of 1980s New York.<br />
PHOTO MAY TRUONG<br />
werk. There was a record shop in Brooklyn, where I lived then,<br />
called Music Factory. There were these two brothers, Donnie<br />
and Dwight, and I used to go down there on Saturday, hang<br />
with them, and just see what was selling. It was a really great<br />
time, the early ’80s—things were really starting to happen in<br />
New York. A lot of good records were being cut in New York and<br />
a lot of good labels were happening, like Prelude. They played<br />
me “Numbers,” which was a Kraftwerk record. I just thought the<br />
beat was ridiculous.<br />
At that time, I was working at Carden Distributors, a onestop<br />
in Long Island. I was making records that sold 40,000<br />
copies and I was sweeping the floor at a one-stop. We’d have<br />
our lunch break, and it was right near the projects. You’d sit<br />
there and you’d always hear [Kraftwerk’s] “Trans-Europe Express,”<br />
the handclaps, the melody. It was really surreal sitting<br />
in the housing projects and hearing that reverberating off the<br />
buildings. It just was very bizarre. But I thought that the beat<br />
on that was too slow. Bam decided that he was into this record<br />
“Super Sporm” by Captain Sky, the break. So we went in the<br />
studio with these ideas and decided we needed a drum machine<br />
because we were trying to emulate the electronic drum sound<br />
of Kraftwerk. So we listened to different drum machines and<br />
heard the 808 and said, “That’s it.” No one had an 808 then.<br />
This is a true story—we looked in the Village Voice and we saw,<br />
“Man with drum machine, $20 a session.” So we called him up<br />
and he said, “Come on in,” and we went into a studio called<br />
Intergalactic Studio.<br />
Appropriate name. Well, yeah, and the Beastie Boys later<br />
made it famous. The programmer of the drum machine had<br />
no idea what the fuck we were doing. We played him Kraftwerk<br />
and showed him what to program. It was through a Neve,<br />
which is an amazing board. It took us like eight hours. I took<br />
the thing home—I was living in Brooklyn—and I put it on and<br />
said to my wife at the time, “We’ve made musical history.”<br />
There was no rap [on it], it wasn’t finished, but just listening<br />
back I knew. When we went in the studio I wanted to make a<br />
record that was going to be uptown and downtown, a record<br />
that people into Talking Heads would play and that people into<br />
Sugarhill Gang would play. We wanted to sort of merge them.<br />
And that had a lot to do with Bam, because he was open to<br />
that. Because, you know, Kool Herc was playing uptown but<br />
you wouldn’t see him playing downtown at Danceteria. So Bam<br />
definitely crossed the boundaries.<br />
What music was being played in clubs in New York at the<br />
time? New York at the time, from ’81 to ’84, was definitely the<br />
heyday of clubs like the Paradise Garage, the Funhouse, Better<br />
Days, Danceteria—those were probably the main ones. These<br />
were not small clubs—they were like 2,000 capacity, and were<br />
just all kicking off at once. Looking back, the best clubs for me<br />
were the Paradise Garage and the Funhouse. Those DJs would<br />
play anything. Larry [Levan] was playing the Clash; he was really<br />
open to anything that would get people dancing. Jellybean,<br />
at Funhouse, used to play a record [called] “Slang Teacher,” by<br />
some band from England, an indie sort of weird record. He’d<br />
play Cat Stevens’ “Was Dog a Doughnut,” anything that would<br />
work. Along with that, guys like Bambaataa and Jazzy Jay were<br />
open to playing Aerosmith, they were playing all kinds of stuff.<br />
So it was really an amazing time, because you could try things<br />
and then bring the tape down to the Funhouse and Jellybean<br />
might throw it on. Once you had the rep, you could have your<br />
stuff played pretty instantaneously. Danceteria was an amazing<br />
club—Madonna came out of Danceteria because Mark Kamins,<br />
who discovered her, DJed there. She was at the clubs every night;<br />
she was just a club kid, really. That’s where it all came from at<br />
that point: the clubs. In the early ’80s, you could go to five or six<br />
places and there’d be thousands of people dancing to great stuff.<br />
You mentioned playing bands from England. There was a<br />
little band from England you did some work with as well.<br />
New Order got in touch with me after “Walkin’ on Sunshine” and<br />
“Planet Rock.” A friend of mine, a guy by the name of Michael<br />
Shamberg, worked for Factory [Records]—the label that they<br />
were on—and he thought we should work together. Ian Curtis<br />
had died six months earlier and they were putting together the<br />
new band. So when New Order came in, it’s funny… We went to<br />
this studio in Brooklyn. This guy Fred Zarr, the keyboard player<br />
who worked on all the Madonna stuff, had a little studio way out<br />
in Brooklyn, Kings Highway. It’s sort of like the Jewish ghetto<br />
thing happening there. There was a temple next door and we’d<br />
bring New Order there and they didn’t know what to make of it.<br />
Their whole reputation was being really dour and moody; they<br />
never smiled. So we tried to write songs together and it wasn’t<br />
really working. They were sort of intimidating [to] me—there<br />
were four of them—and I was really intimidating them, which I<br />
didn’t know at the time. So nothing got done for a while. Then<br />
we went in the studio and the clock was ticking, so we started<br />
writing. From that session we came up with “Confusion,” but<br />
also “Thieves Like Us.” And then they flew off and took the tape<br />
for “Thieves Like Us,” and I figured I’d never hear about that one<br />
again. Then one day about two years later, after “Confusion” had<br />
already come out, I’m going into a club and I hear this beat. I’m<br />
like, “Damn, that sounds like one of my beats!” I finally climb<br />
up the stairs and I look and it’s “Thieves Like Us.” So basically,<br />
they’d finished it up and put it out. But I got my credit and everything.<br />
I just hadn’t really ever expected it to be seen again. I<br />
thought they were going to be some sort of really flash, polished<br />
English band. And they thought I was a flash, polished American<br />
producer. So we were both wrong.<br />
Interviewed by Jeff ‘Chairman’ Mao at Red Bull<br />
Music Academy Toronto 2007. For the full Q&A, head to<br />
redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures.<br />
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COLUMNS COLUMNS<br />
new york hardcore, the sped-up,<br />
ideological hybrid of punk and metal that<br />
emerged in the early ’80s, has many factions<br />
and one overarching symbol of solidarity: the<br />
letter X with the initials N-Y and H-C written<br />
through it. That tribal mark not only brands<br />
the local scene but has also spawned countless<br />
copycats in cities and ’burbs around the world.<br />
Club bouncers would write an X on the<br />
hands of underage kids at shows. By some<br />
accounts, Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson of<br />
D.C.’s the Teen Idles (and later Minor Threat)<br />
had gotten their hands X’d at a West Coast<br />
club and Nelson, a designer, brought the image<br />
into their artwork. Over time, as they asserted<br />
a drug-free message as inspired by hardcore<br />
heroes Bad Brains, the symbol morphed to<br />
signify straight edge. As Glen Cummings,<br />
former bassist for NYHC band Ludichrist and<br />
a designer who has studied the X in depth,<br />
explains, “It changed from ‘I can’t drink’ to<br />
‘I won’t drink’ [and as the scene grew more<br />
violent] to ‘I’ll beat you up if you do.’”<br />
While Cro-Mags, Agnostic Front, and<br />
Murphy’s Law came to define New York<br />
hardcore, it was the lesser-known straight-<br />
20<br />
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LOGOS<br />
The origins of<br />
iconic images from<br />
NYC's musical history<br />
explained.<br />
edge band the Abused’s lead singer Kevin<br />
Crowley who put the NYHC X on the map. He<br />
started using it as part of his painstakingly<br />
drawn flyers for the band’s shows at clubs like<br />
CBGB and A7 in Alphabet City. As Crowley<br />
recently told the Noise Creep blog, “I wanted<br />
to make people remember us [and] I wanted<br />
our music and the artwork associated with<br />
the band to be cohesive. The hardcore scene<br />
was pretty territorial. New York, Boston,<br />
D.C.—it was almost the way people are with<br />
sports teams. I was a huge fan of the music<br />
coming out of those other cities, but NYC was<br />
my hometown! In a way, the NYHC logo was a<br />
declaration of our scene, a statement.”<br />
In addition to being a badge of hometown<br />
pride, the symbol was an easy way for<br />
unknown bands to communicate, “Hey,<br />
we’re part of this genre” on their flyers,<br />
says Cummings. Steven Blush, author and<br />
filmmaker of American Hardcore, also credits<br />
the Abused with “taking the X to the next<br />
level,” noting that “the four letters of NYHC<br />
brought to the X a perfect symmetry.” Crowley<br />
says, “The truth is, I never imagined it would<br />
catch on like it did.” -SuE ApfELbAuM<br />
A column on<br />
the gear and<br />
processes that inform<br />
the music we make.<br />
talking about your creative process<br />
can feel like you’re giving up secrets, shorting<br />
out your persona, or simply being crude about<br />
a beautiful thing (i.e. music). Which is to say,<br />
many thanks to the artists and engineers who<br />
endured these interrogations. This is the last<br />
Work Flow column. If anything has come out<br />
of the last 20 or so pieces, it’s not tried-andtrue<br />
tips so much as slightly less oblique strategies:<br />
what working music people do when they<br />
feel stuck or limited. Here are a few core ideas<br />
that our interviewed artists touched on in one<br />
way or another.<br />
1. Limit yourself to one machine. Even if<br />
it’s not the best-sounding machine! Artists like<br />
Derek Miller from Sleigh Bells and Slava both<br />
start from a single synthesizer workstation to<br />
get things going. It keeps the focus on making<br />
a song—not just sounds. The one-machine<br />
limit forces them to become better critics of<br />
their own work too. Being excited about your<br />
work in its rawest state is a good litmus test<br />
for quality.<br />
2. Play it the wrong way. Experimental<br />
artist Noah Kardos-Fein from YVETTE is a<br />
monstrous example of this—instead of playing<br />
guitar through effects pedals, what if you<br />
played the pedals themselves? For booker Ric<br />
Leichtung, the same idea applies to performance<br />
spaces: how can a technically “bad”<br />
sounding room make the music experience<br />
more exciting?<br />
3. Try taking the long road. Little imperfections<br />
can accumulate in meaningful ways—<br />
make your music sound weird and wonky and<br />
human. Avoiding Ableton means that Ital’s<br />
Daniel Martin-McCormick assembles drum<br />
hits and vocals samples one-by-one in Audacity.<br />
For Daren Ho, founder of synth shop Control,<br />
modular synthesizers force you to understand<br />
the fundamentals of sound creation, so<br />
that you have a better sense of the possibilities<br />
for manipulating them.<br />
4. Separate cause from effect. Technology<br />
helps us exploit the space between the<br />
performance of music and the sound of that<br />
performance. Producer Joel Ford used MIDI<br />
to record live improvisations for the Autre<br />
Ne Veut record, then mapped new sounds<br />
onto the data afterward. Red Bull Music<br />
Academy participant Leo Aldrey used Max/<br />
MSP to make Tonal Pizza, an entirely new interface<br />
that breaks free from the typical and<br />
immediate one-to-one relationship of musical<br />
instruments.<br />
5. Submit. Let the accidents surprise you.<br />
“Sometimes the more control you try to exert<br />
over something is the thing that’s taking<br />
you the farthest away,” says G. Lucas Crane<br />
of Casper Electronics. “You can’t see the box<br />
you’re putting yourself in.”<br />
-NICK SyLVESTER<br />
CHuNG KING<br />
STuDIOS<br />
rap was born in the South Bronx, then found commercial<br />
success in recording spaces like John King’s<br />
Chung King Studios. Originally dubbed Chung King’s<br />
House of Metal by Rick Rubin, King initially opened<br />
on Centre Street, above an old Chinese restaurant;<br />
the cramped space hosted a variety of rock and punk<br />
acts before King solidified a partnership with Rubin,<br />
Russell Simmons, and the Def Jam roster. The timing<br />
was perfect: artists like Public Enemy, the Beastie<br />
Boys, Run-DMC and LL Cool J were making waves, and<br />
King helped amplify those waves into a titanic cultural<br />
movement.<br />
The little space quickly outgrew its confines, so in the<br />
mid-’90s, King recruited Frank Comentale, an engineer<br />
and all-around sound maven, to design and build a new<br />
10,000-square-foot facility at 170 Varick Street. Comentale<br />
cut his teeth designing rooms at the now-defunct<br />
Hit Factory studios, and that prototype influenced his<br />
work at Chung King where he “built out a whole floor.<br />
They were some of the best rooms I’ve done,” he says. “At<br />
the time really state-of-the-art.”<br />
When Comentale first started in the business 45<br />
years ago, everything was analog—in other words, size<br />
really did matter. “At first everyone did eight-track<br />
[recordings], then it was 16, then 24, 48, 56, 78... The<br />
equipment just kept getting bigger.” Larger and larger<br />
rooms were required to hold everything, especially the<br />
massive consoles. But then digital technology changed<br />
everything: “In the late ’90s, when people started doing<br />
pre-production at home on their computers, the big studios<br />
couldn’t carry their [costs].” Chung King took another<br />
hit in 2001 since it was located near Ground Zero<br />
and had to close for a time following 9/11. According to<br />
Comentale, the studio never fully recovered financially,<br />
and the space shuttered in early 2010.<br />
After a couple of years, John King opened a new<br />
space in the old Skyline Recording Studios. Comentale<br />
went on to design rooms for some of the biggest names<br />
in the biz (Wyclef Jean, Diddy, Alicia Keys). Coincidentally,<br />
he also designed Red Bull Music Academy’s own<br />
console room, where the Academy has hosted its New<br />
York 2013 participants. -ADRIENNE DAy<br />
TOp 5…<br />
NyC HIp-HOp<br />
HIGH SCHOOLS<br />
PRESENTED BY<br />
Hip-hop is a lot like high school: insular,<br />
competitive, cliquey, traumatizing, and exhilarating.<br />
But just where did your favorite NYC<br />
rap artists (and their favorite NYC rap artists)<br />
actually attend high school (or at least<br />
cut class on their way to achieving professional<br />
music notoriety)? Hip-hop authors/TV producers/<br />
list-makers/history majors/class clowns ego trip<br />
(egotripland.com) studied up to drop this education<br />
on rapper matriculation.<br />
19<br />
STATEN ISLAND<br />
1<br />
HIGH SCHOOL<br />
Of MuSIC & ART,<br />
MANHATTAN<br />
Known as the Fame<br />
school (and now<br />
LaGuardia High School<br />
of Music & Art), Music<br />
& Art’s past rap<br />
student body — Slick<br />
Rick, Dana Dane, Mobb<br />
Deep’s Havoc and<br />
Prodigy, Organized<br />
Konfusion’s Pharoahe<br />
Monch and Prince<br />
Po, MC Serch, Nicki<br />
Minaj — is gonna live<br />
forever. (Cue Irene<br />
Cara.)<br />
LANDMARKS<br />
The places, spaces,<br />
and monuments of<br />
NYC's musical past,<br />
present, and future.<br />
PAST FeATUreD LANDMArkS<br />
1 MAX NeUHAUS’<br />
“TIMeS SQUARe”<br />
2 THe THING<br />
SeCONDHAND<br />
STORe<br />
3 THe LOFT<br />
4 MARCY HOTeL<br />
5 ANDY WARHOL’S<br />
FACTORY<br />
6 QUeeNSBRIDGe<br />
HOUSeS<br />
7 ReCORD MART<br />
8 DeITCH<br />
PROJeCTS<br />
9 AReA/SHeLTeR/<br />
VINYL<br />
10 STUDIO B<br />
11 MARKeT HOTeL<br />
12 DAPTONe<br />
ReCORDS<br />
13 THe VILLAGe<br />
GATe/LIFe/Le<br />
POISSON ROUGe<br />
14 THe ANCHORAGe<br />
15 eLeCTRIC LADY<br />
STUDIOS<br />
16 CROTONA PARK<br />
JAMS<br />
17 FAT BeATS<br />
18 MUDD CLUB<br />
19 MANDOLIN<br />
BROTHeRS<br />
20 ADDISLeIGH<br />
PARK<br />
21 FILLMORe eAST/<br />
THe SAINT<br />
MANHATTAN<br />
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HIGH SCHOOL fOR<br />
buSINESS CAREERS,<br />
MANHATTAN<br />
In the ’80s, this<br />
downtown learning<br />
institution seemingly<br />
specialized in<br />
careers in innovative<br />
Afrocentric hiphop.<br />
A Tribe Called<br />
Quest’s Q-Tip and<br />
Ali Shaheed Muhammad,<br />
Jungle Brothers’<br />
Afrika and Mike G,<br />
and X-Clan’s Brother<br />
J all hit the books<br />
here.<br />
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wESTINGHOuSE<br />
HIGH SCHOOL,<br />
bROOKLyN<br />
Old school, new<br />
school, need to<br />
learn: Biggie, Jay-Z,<br />
and Busta Rhymes are<br />
amongst those with<br />
hip-hop honors to<br />
walk Westinghouse’s<br />
halls.<br />
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WHAT: CHUNG kING<br />
STUDIOS<br />
WHeRe: 241 CeNTre<br />
ST.; 170 VArICk<br />
ST.; 36 W. 37TH ST.<br />
WHY: LeGeNDArY<br />
reCOrDING STUDIO<br />
WHeN: 1979-2010;<br />
2012-PreSeNT<br />
4<br />
ANDREw JACKSON<br />
HIGH SCHOOL,<br />
QuEENS<br />
Captured on LL Cool<br />
J’s B.A.D. album<br />
cover, AJHS not only<br />
boasted James Todd<br />
Smith as a former<br />
student, but also<br />
class acts like Run<br />
and Jam Master Jay,<br />
Curtis ‘50 Cent’<br />
Jackson, and hip-hop<br />
music-video auteur<br />
Hype Williams.<br />
16<br />
THE bRONx<br />
QuEENS<br />
5<br />
ADLAI E. STEVENSON<br />
HIGH SCHOOL, THE<br />
bRONx<br />
Former Stevenson<br />
students include Big<br />
Pun, Remy Ma, Drag-<br />
On, and Mickey Factz.<br />
But if it wasn’t for<br />
another graduate,<br />
ex-Black Spades gang<br />
member turned Zulu<br />
Nation founder Afrika<br />
Bambaataa, this rap<br />
ish probably never<br />
would be going on.<br />
Uptown, baby.<br />
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4'34"<br />
Listening as a mode of survival.<br />
for much of my American life, I have been trying to<br />
answer a question that has prevented me from reaching<br />
a level of critical self-comfort and fulfillment I thought<br />
to be my inalienable right: why do I cry at the emotional<br />
tipping point of sappy saccharine scores to mediocre<br />
Hollywood films? Despite a near-complete awareness<br />
of the emotional manipulation that, say, a John Williams<br />
or a Howard Shore score is trying to impart upon<br />
my being, the moment that the movie reaches a tender<br />
late-in-the-fifth-act denouement and the accompanying<br />
strings start to crescendo, my eyes begin to tear uncontrollably,<br />
even as my reason curses the machinations<br />
that have deceived me into this fragile state. Recently,<br />
I’ve started trying to think more clearly about the cause<br />
and effect of this phenomenon, and think I’ve found the<br />
culprit. I blame New York.<br />
Some background may be in order: I arrived at JFK<br />
Airport as a displaced seven-year-old foreigner, thrown<br />
into the deep end of Elmhurst, Queens (then to Jersey<br />
City, the West Village, and South Brooklyn), without a<br />
lick of language and with no capitalist-ideal advantages.<br />
My main tools of assimilation were a cultured pair of<br />
ears and a deep empathetic streak, so music became a<br />
natural gateway.<br />
Classical pianist Jeremy Denk recently gave some insight<br />
into his education: “The daily rite of discovery… is<br />
how learning really happens,” he wrote. I too adapted by<br />
soaking the city in, sponge-like, person by person, neighborhood<br />
by neighborhood, sound by sound. And while<br />
the diversity of my playground made it easy to encounter<br />
the baggage carried by the wider population’s diverse<br />
musical choices (much less the sonic-critical discourse<br />
being unpacked in the then-great Village Voice), for a<br />
long time, it was a chore to tell genres and their social<br />
trappings apart. Why did some kids insist that “disco<br />
sucks” but listened to Queen’s “Another One Bites the<br />
Dust”? Why did teen boys quit the basketball team, suddenly<br />
adapt uniforms of black mascara and sad dispositions,<br />
all the while failing to laugh at Morrissey’s jokes?<br />
What did knowing which color fat laces should be worn<br />
on a specific kind of Fila sneaker have to do with enjoying<br />
Whistle’s “Just Buggin’”? How come Bruce Springsteen<br />
isn’t cool, when a stadium full of people says he is?<br />
I was oblivious to the social contracts being signed<br />
and the mores being practiced by my peers, even as I<br />
was beginning to understand the radical differences the<br />
stories their music choices told. My own pop blanket<br />
covered them all equally, just as, it seemed to me, New<br />
York had room for all of their voices, be they tired, poor,<br />
and huddled or ecstatic, stoned, and immaculate. The<br />
WORDS PIOTR ORlOv<br />
IllUSTRATION ROB cARMIcHAEl, SEEN<br />
self-satisfaction I began to feel at my attendance and<br />
understanding of diverse experiences—late-night gay<br />
dancefloors, freestyle rap ciphers, and hardcore matinee<br />
mosh pits—almost made it feel like I was a native. Except<br />
that, of course, natives don’t usually feel equally at home<br />
in all of those settings.<br />
Something happens when you fully lift the dam to audio<br />
stimulation and let music penetrate you beyond reason,<br />
allowing it to flood every bit of your emotional space.<br />
It is a state at once outside of being—and if you could<br />
simultaneously remain cognizant of the physical narrative<br />
playing out all around—completely in touch with<br />
the present. Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose—especially<br />
when abetted by light psychedelic stimulation and not<br />
fiddling about with media-fueled excitement. And once<br />
the floodgates are open, they are very hard to close at will.<br />
I have not seen the inside of a cipher or a mosh pit in<br />
a long, long time (dancefloors are another story). Having<br />
grown older and more restrained, I have been forced to<br />
refine my music consumption—not least because catering<br />
to those habits has changed so drastically in the digital<br />
era. I still try to listen to the city and its music the way<br />
that the younger me once did, but honestly, I recognize<br />
this is impossible. I’m too often focused on the history instead<br />
of the finished pieces in front of me, be it a sample<br />
or what a particular location might have been a decade<br />
prior. It probably has something to do with the endless<br />
yearning for youth, a topic that I’ll save for my therapist’s<br />
couch. With maturation, my emotional openness and extreme<br />
connectedness to music has waned.<br />
There is one listening practice that does remain completely<br />
in place, where the defense perimeter has not<br />
been so fully rebuilt: the corny movie scenes and their<br />
sappy accompaniments. Be it rom-com, dramedy or a<br />
Bildungsroman—regardless of if I am rapt or inattentive—once<br />
the emotive moment comes, the tears begin<br />
to flow. This has also become a lesson in itself. As growing<br />
older and tougher has made crying more difficult<br />
and less frequent, I have begun to enjoy this feeling of<br />
being overpowered. It may be a false emotional tonic,<br />
but I like to think that it speaks to a humanistic quality—one<br />
that reinforces my need to not forget to listen,<br />
to hear things without prejudice, and to not decry sappy<br />
endnotes. Like this one.<br />
Piotr Orlov is a writer, curator, and creative<br />
producer who was born in Leningrad and now lives in<br />
Brooklyn. For the past five weeks he has served as<br />
editor in chief of Daily Note. You can find him at<br />
twitter.com/RaspberryJones.<br />
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